Andy Rubin: 500,000+ Android devices activated each and every day

Well we’ve just read it straight from the horse’s mouth, there are over 500,000 (yes, half a million) Android devices activated each and every single day around the world, and the rate is growing at 4.4% every week — amazing. This is a 150,000+ jump over the last activation numbers we received back in April when ~350,000 devices were being activated on a daily basis. Android growth has no doubt be helped along by the launch of multiple Honeycomb Tablets around the world and the strong push Android is having with dual-core super-phones. Now if we could only get a near-definite number of how many of these activations are from Australia.

holy balls, at that rate of growth, that will equate to more than 1.5m activations per day by the end of the year (mind-boggling)

are they counting each time a phone is switched on for the first time (because in that case the systems could inarticulately read that technically i’ve ‘activated’ some handsets dozens of times after flashing OSs, couldn’t i?)

Yeh, I’d like to know what an ‘activation’ is considered to be. I think they clarified it after apple accused them of counting os updates as new activations but they said it was something like new handsets.

i am not a mathematician but this increase looks exponential! and i expect it to continue as the masses learn more and more about android and the manufacturers continue to pump out great android phones.